Sophos has announced that it was, once again, positioned in the Leaders quadrant of Gartner’s 2013 Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection.
The quadrant is based on an assessment of a company’s market understanding, strategy and completeness of vision within the mobile data protection (MDP) industry. MDP products are defined as products that protect access to secure data on storage systems in notebooks, removable media, desktops and servers.
Buyers want common protection policies across multiple platforms, minimal support costs and proof of protection.
According to Gartner, Leaders are at the forefront of making and selling mobile data protection products that are built for enterprise business environments. The requirements necessary for leadership include a long-term road map that follows and/or influence Gartner, Inc’s vision of the developing needs of buyers in the market.
Vendors in this quadrant lead the market by making their competitors’ sales staffs nervous and force competitors’ technical staffs to follow their lead. Their MDP products are well-known to clients and are frequently found on RFP shortlists.
“To be positioned as a leader for the past eight years is a testament to Sophos’ product teams who continue to deliver innovative encryption and data protection products,” says Brett Myroff, CEO of Sophos distributor, NetXactics.
“Sophos also has an aggressive roadmap as well as plans to make it even simpler for small and medium sized businesses to protect their data by encrypting drives, files, cloud storage and mobile files invisibly. This positions the company for more success in future,” he adds.
Sophos was also positioned as a Leader in Gartner’s 2013 Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management.
